The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has published its latest Retail Survey, revealing the progress made by supermarkets in improving food labelling and packaging.

Bryson Recycling has been awarded a three-year contract to continue recycling collections from 250,000 households in Northern Ireland.

Viridor invests £2 million in an innovation project to create low-carbon transport fuels from landfill gas.

Food waste app Too Good To Go, which links customers with surplus restaurant food, is now operating in 100 Costa Coffee stores across the UK.

Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers expressed her desire to see the Environment Bill continue its passage through Parliament despite the forthcoming general election.

The government’s ban on plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds is due to come into force in April 2020.

A trial to test Polytag’s new ‘tag and trace’ recycling technology has been launched today in Wirral.

The Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) has become a guarantor for the On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) scheme.

The Environmental Audit Committee has written to Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers stating that some aspects of the government’s Environment Bill are ‘not fit for purpose’.

A round-up of business news from the waste and resources sector, including Winnow, Collard Group, Novamont, ACE and WasteCare.